Lufthansa's CEO Jürgen Weber informs that Lufthansa is placing skymarshals on their flights and strenghtening the cockpit doors. They will not publish the number of skymarshals hired, but it is calculated there will be a need for 3 to 8 marshals on each plane, depending on the type and size.

Note: This article is in Norwegian. You can translate using Babelfish.

"If it weren't for the fact that (more than) 5,000 people are dead, it would be comical," said Bob Monetti, who lost his son in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and has sat on a number of federal task forces on aviation security. "Here these people have been fighting spending every penny on airport security, and now they want a bailout?"

KABA NOTE: And now they are resisting allowing citizens and pilots to help protect flights for free.

"I can't tell you if his shoes were polished. I can't tell you if his clothes were ironed. But I can tell you he didn't have anything in his hands," he said. "That's the one constant in this deposition."

"There is only one step that will immediately increase public confidence in the airlines: The U.S. government must move swiftly to allow the airlines to arm their pilots while in the cockpit." --NewsMax

Attorney General Janet Napolitano says she wants reports on anyone who utters a racial slur.

"If you hear someone using epithets, we want to know who that person is," she said last week. "There are some people who need to be watched to prevent an act of violence, and we want to be able to do that."

It would be "perfectly legit," she said, for officers to visit people who've been reported as using slurs.

One third of New Yorkers favor establishing internment camps for "individuals who authorities identify as being sympathetic to terrorist causes," according to a poll from the Siena College Research Institute. 50% were opposed to the idea, and 15% had no opinion.

The Constitution itself explicitly allows for only one emergency power:

"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

But as early as the Civil War, officials created new "temporary" powers for themselves out of whole cloth. They acted in the heat of the moment, with necessity as their defense and opposing voices few and largely muzzled by wartime passions.

Finding the murderers and bringing them to justice is a logical option. Once they are positively identified, mass murderers must not be allowed to roam free.

[But] If the past is any guide, the U.S. government may respond to this attack in two counter-productive ways. American intervention overseas is likely to be stepped up, and the authorities can be expected to impose authoritarian curbs on domestic liberties.

"we hear calls to allow government to step up electronic surveillance, and to require national ID cards so that government can monitor our travels. Even before last week's bombings, the Supreme Court struck down by a slender 5-4 vote the use of thermal imaging in law enforcement. The requirement of warrants is an essential protection of civil liberty — in times of peace as well as war." --Clint Bolick, vice-president of the Washington-based Institute for Justice

The Phase III Report of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st CenturyRoad Map for National Security: Imperative for ChangeDRAFT FINAL REPORT: January 31, 2001

"in Phase III, it recommends a new National Homeland Security Agency to consolidate and refine the missions of the nearly two dozen disparate departments and agencies that have a role in U.S. homeland security today."

--Planned in detail LONG before the terrorist attacks of September 11.

"The FAA is scrambling at this moment to get sky marshals aboard commercial aircraft. But there are not nearly enough, and we are the potential victims. So why rely on full time sky marshals? Why not implement a program to allow anyone with a CHL to apply for certification as a Citizen Sky Marshall?"

"We have never allowed pilots to carry firearms on board," said Jenna Ludgate, spokeswoman for United Airlines.

But United co-pilot Aaron Benedetti, who has received specialized firearms training for pilots from the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada disagrees with his employer's policy ...if the airline allowed its pilots to carry side arms, "United could once again claim they fly the friendly skies."

"Democrats thought the Schumer amendment was something that would not stir up people on the outside. But all of a sudden, lots of faxes and e-mails from GOA activists started pouring into their offices, and the idea was shelved. Great work! We'll let you know if Schumer makes another attempt in the future."

GOA Alerts:* Hostettler To Expand Gun Rights* Demil Gun Grab Is Back

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